An attacker needs only detect one weakness to breach
your network and take control; in other words, every potential
security weakness must be identified — and secured
— in order to protect your company's digital assets.
Although many establishments have vulnerability / penetration
tests undertaken throughout the year, many also find it
useful to have an in house tool to run when they want
to. This would tend to be, after installing or making
changes to a firewalls and routers, when adding a new
section of network, when a particular staff member leaves
the company, and generally any other changes that could
affect the security of your network…
AIS NETWORK VULNERABILITY
TESTING
“AIS have developed a series of Vulnerability Tests
that our specialist team can run, to prove the effectiveness
of network security systems”
As the IT Manager, it’s a fundamental responsibility
of your role, to implement security measures to safeguard
and control access to your companies’ network...
You’ll
most probably have a firewall in place and the chances
are it’s correctly configured and up to date with
the very latest version of operating software. Besides
which, who would want to access your network?
Generally speaking, from your perspective (and your Managing
Director’s), security has been considered, addressed
and is under control.
From the perspective of a person seeking to gain unauthorised
access to a network, they also have a good understanding
of security systems. Like you, they keep themselves up
to date on IT issues (especially weaknesses in products
and systems). They won’t necessarily be targeting
your network (for them, any weakness in any network, is
a valid target).
Unfortunately, they have a different agenda and mindset.
Their motive could simply be to vandalise systems for
the sake of a challenge or maybe they want to utilise
your servers for their own purposes.
Proving Your Security Systems & Understanding the
Risks to prove the effectiveness of the systems protecting
your network requires extensive current knowledge of the
methods and tools that can be used to obtain unauthorised
access. This knowledge can only be gained by experience
drawn from the exposure of working daily with customers
and helping them address the security issues they face.
AIS offer both External and Internal based Vulnerability
testing services to ensure a comprehensive analysis is
produced.
So, if you’re interested to find out more about
how AIS can help you to test and prove the effectiveness
of your Security Systems, contact us now.
Our experience and expertise is at your disposal.
